Hello Friends, Edie came home from Uzbekistan last week. Her year living as an ex-pat teaching assistant is over. She’s having a few weeks off and will then be looking for a permanent job. She’s now pretty fluent in Russian … Continue reading
Tag Archives: home life
Hello Friends, We had a lovely Easter weekend away at the inlaws. It’s flat down south, so I finally got round to road testing my new road bike properly. I tried it out a few weeks ago on the Manifold … Continue reading
Hello Friends, I have spent most of this weekend clearing space for when Bee gets back from university tomorrow. We took a load of cardboard and other junk to the recycling centre yesterday morning, a bag of shoes, odd socks … Continue reading
Hello Friends, A few weeks ago I wrote about how I was clearing up Edie’s room by picking up three things every time I went in there. I’m now applying the same principle to the landing, and that is looking … Continue reading
Hello Friends, Today, 1st September 2014, we made the last payment on our mortgage. After all this time, I can’t quite believe we have got there. We have managed to pay it off 5 years early and I feel like … Continue reading
Hello Friends, Life is calming down again after several frantic weeks. Every time I decide to slow down, life happens and I end up doing even more. Recently we’ve had to move both Edie and Bee out of their respective … Continue reading
Hello Friends, When I look back over nearly 2 1/2 years of writing about life on Frugal Hill, I notice that at times I’ve been overcommitted with work, home life and everything else and I’ve been pretty frazzled. Nearly a … Continue reading
Hello Friends, Short post tonight as my eyes are very tired. I’ve had some really tough days at work recently with today being the mummy and daddy of them. As I came home on the train from Birmingham it occurred … Continue reading
Hello Friends, Bee’s school was closed yesterday due to heavy snowfall during the rush hour. She was delighted to have a ‘snow day’ and went out tobogganing on Frugal Hill – this turned out not to be such a good … Continue reading
Hello Friends, Over the last couple of months it’s felt that like I’ve been whizzing round in circles. No sooner had we packed Edie off to Russia than we began on the university circuit with Bee. I’ve also been working … Continue reading